(both the AA-side “L. Wells” and the video-clip “Jeremy Fraser” are not featured on the album, recorded in early 2006 during the band’s tour of Australia in support of the album)
You Could Have It So Much Better went on to earn a nomination for Best Alternative Album at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in 2006, as did “Do You Want To” for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
In early 2006, they finished their tour with sold-out shows in Los Angeles, Miami and Berkeley .
Towards the end of 2006, Higgs and Niven devised plans to start a band “with a sort of Paul Morley -inspired, poptimist aesthetic”. The band took the name Everything Everything from the first two words of the Radiohead song ” Everything in Its Right Place “, the opening track to…
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While Spearman attended Berklee College of Music and Leeds College of Music to study jazz drumming, Higgs went on to study for a degree in Popular Music and Recording at Salford University , where he met Hampshire -born bass player Jeremy Pritchard. Pritchard moved to Tunbridge Wells at a very…
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The band spent much of 2005 in the studio in Glasgow working on their follow-up album, You Could Have It So Much Better , which was released on 3 October 2005. The band initially intended to leave the album self-titled like their debut, but they changed it to You Could…
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to coincide with the band’s October 2005 UK tour.
An album of remixes of tracks from Silent Alarm had also been released at the end of August 2005 in the UK.
During July 2005, Bloc Party recorded two new tracks with Silent Alarm producer Paul Epworth .
Silent Alarm was released in February 2005